Lost!

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by bewitched

That's what I thought but now I'm wondering if maybe little Charlie will actually turn out to be big Charlie.

Coincidences just never end up being coincidences on Lost. And seemingly logical conclusions usually end up being anything but.

Might be something to that.....recall back to season 1 in the episode titled White Rabbit?

Charlie, out of breath, came running up to Jack to inform that a woman was drowning out in the ocean.....he told Jack that he could not swim.

Yet later on:

He lists, as one of the top 10 moments of his life, his father(who wasn't Desmond btw)* teaching him how to swim.

He has no problem swimming down to the underwater station.

Maybe what we are viewing of our Islanders is not a single Time-line but several.....which would not only explain how Charlie could Swim in Season 3 but not in Season 1. It could explain lots of things actually; like how the sound of the smoke monster seems familier to Rose or how Sawyer, after getting back from Prison Island had no recollection of Nikki and Paulo.

*Although, it has been reported that just before Charlie leaps into the pool a childs voice can be heard in the background saying "C'mon Desmond, C'mon".....don't know if that means anything or not